Review of Mozart Magic Cube

In Claire's recent one year old birthday party, she received a Mozart Magic Cube cube from one of her aunties or uncles.

The magic cube is very colourful and when you press the blue side or the word "Orchestra" of the cube, it will perform an orchestra of different Mozart songs. The fun thing about this cube is that each side of the cube represent an instrument and play the same song. When Claire press more than 1 side, instruments are added into the orchestra till it became the full orchestra. One more thing, she can easily press the side to activate the music and lights emitted when the songs are playing.

Claire really loves this toy. With this cube, she will play with it alone when I am busy with some chores. When I walked with her around the house, she will insist to walk back to the living room and squat down to press the cube for music and continued the walk with me.

In shorts, what are the benefits of a Mozart Magic Cube?

• Toy with attractive colors
• Sides of the cube have big surface area for easy pressing to play sounds
• Interesting on how the different musical instruments come to live to perform an orchestra when you individually press the sides
• Display of lights from the cube is fun too
• The cube is safe because the edges are rounded
• Child will learn cause and effect from this toy. Claire pressed one of the side and accidentally press on the same side again when the music is played, and it stopped. She then pressed it again and the music restarts. 
• Enjoy the music. You can see that Claire truly enjoyed the songs when she swayed her body side to side when she hears the music

Here, we would like to thank the person who bought the toy. Unfortunately, the name of the sender was not indicated on the present wrapper. Thank you so much because Claire loves it.

Recently, one mummy shares with me that she bought toys and learning stuff from Amazon because it is cheaper.

In Amazon, it cost around $35 to $37 Sing Dollars with shipping. I also found a few local companies that sells this online. Kulily sold at around $38 with shipping and the rest of the online stores seems too expensive. I am not too sure how much this cube will cost at our retail stores in Singapore. Perhaps anyone who has info can share with us by putting down in the comments?

Cheers,
Deariebearmommie

Baby Claire One Year Birthday Party Experience + photos!!

That day had finally arrived. It was Baby Claire 1 year old Party!! It happened on the 31st of Dec 2013 @Bukit Batok Civil Service Club's Children Party Room.

This is the banner which I've mentioned in the earlier post. (Please read about our planning in this post) I personally felt a sense of achievement after completing this as it took me some time to nicely cut and paste the Hippa Hippa Hey and the Baby Hood characters from Baby TV. Fortunately, we also have pretty good resolution photos of Claire which completed the picture for this banner. Doesn't it looks cute and nice with the colorful background of the room. We also managed to get cute helium  and colorful balloons from thePartyStuff online to liven up the room.

Even the kids love the colorful balloons. This little kid is a natural in front of the camera :)

Claire also received her special balloon which is a giraffe. The balloonist is so skilled in creating this on the spot! Look at Claire's surprised look!

Beside balloonist, we also hired a magician from the same company, THAT Balloons , who did a fantastic job in making both children and adults laughed out in joy through his various tricks :)

We also received compliments on the sweet delights. Since our aim is to make the party as colorful as possible. We just can't do without the rainbow cupcakes. They are soft, fluffy and topped with yummy cheese cream. These are from Hey Cupcake!

And the main item for the party, the Cake! We discussed with Pine Garden's cake shop and designed a Baby TV theme cake with her favorite characters on it. Took their recommendation to opt for the Hazelnut Chocolate Crunch cake which had been a hot favorite with children. Our friends and relatives found them yummy too and some asked for a second helping :)

And one necessary item to take note! A good photographer with patience. I took some time to search for photographers who have experiences in children birthday parties, and finally chose Waipeng to capture the key moments for Claire's first birthday. We really appreciate how she mingled so well with the kids at the party and Gosh!, I was surprise when i noticed that she even remember their names. Look at more of the nice moments from the party.

Our Birthday Girl! Looking so so happy at the children playroom, just beside the party room. This was taken after the party. Many kids stayed after the party and went wild in the party room :P

Lastly, Baby Claire and us would like to thank lots of people. 

Thank to all our relatives and friends and their kids who took special effort to come to our party despite it being a holiday eve. All of you made it a great memory for us and Claire. Of course, thanks for all the wonderful presents too. 

Thanks to our brothers especially Ah Yuan, who took half-day to come down to help us to set-up the place.

Thanks to our caring family members especially to my parents-in-laws who selflessly offered help and patiently took care of Claire this past one year. They have sure made her a very happy baby.

To my devoted hubby and daddy who plays, cares and loves Claire. Though he is tired, he still tolerate my nagging, and my stubbornness in creating a well drilled routine for Claire.

Last but not least, to my little girl, Claire. Time really flies and sometimes I really hope the clock will stop as you are growing too fast. Thanks for coming into our lives. We found new joys in life which will not happened if you are not here with us. Thank you for sharing with us your vulnerability, clumsiness, mischievous actions, mesmerizing smiles and infectious laughters. We hope to hold you for a long long time before you are ready to let go of our hands and explore the world independently. Though, I hope that day would not come too soon... :)

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Preparing Baby Claire 1st year Birthday Party

It is going to be one year ever since our little baby came to our world. To us, time really flies. When we were looking at the photos taken during this past one year when preparing her birthday montage, there was a gush of feeling that came over us.."oh mine...see how much Claire has grown and developed". I even mentioned "Claire looks pretty fat when she was younger, no wonder his uncle said she looked like Hao Shao Wen, the famous shaolin monk kid actor". Now, she looks much more like a girl (refer to the 2nd pic). At least, some passerby asked "She is a girl rite?", not "Is she a boy?" :P

Papa Justin has volunteered to take up the task to create the montage. Can't wait to see how it looks like. Aren't you are excited as me too?

So what are we preparing for the party?

A checklist of items:

• e-invitation
• Banner. This took me some time. I have to cut and copy from her favorite characters from Baby TV.
• programme with activities
• Cakes, cupcakes, buffet, special plates, cups for kids
• Decorations
• Present Wish-list (Since some of our friends asked for a wish-list)
• Claire Video + surprise babytv clips
• Venue @ Bukit Batok CSC, Children Party Room. Initially, we booked a chalet at Aloha Changi. We decided to change venue due to inaccessibility and ...lots of mosquitos which we don't think it will be good for the kids
• Kids' goodie bags
• Play mat, coloring materials for kids
• Music

We wanted to make it a Baby TV theme however, the lack of decorations may be an issue. Thus, we will made do of whatever we have. We will include characters from Hippa Hippa Hey, and characters from Baby Hood.

This is the invitation card created for our relatives and close friends. A friend mentioned that it as so cute. It seemed that Claire was the one inviting them. :)

This is the programme outline. We hope the party will be full of fun for the families and kids. The wonderful thing about this venue is that kids are able to run to the indoor playground next door to have some physical activities.

And..nothing forgetting the cute little things like cupcakes. The rainbow cupcakes from Hey Cupcakes are so cute and yummy for kids. We bet they will love them. Claire can't wait to take a big mouthful of it. :P 

Last but not least.....the Kids Goodie Bags! Pretty simple stuff. A sneak preview into one of the items, the hand clappers! Claire loves it and started clapping with it :)

3 more days to go! :) 

Cheers,

Deariebear Mommie